Dear Reader,
Odd Family Out is a collection of twenty-five short stories I wrote during the last months of 2015 and the early months of 2016. It’s a fine blend of love, new-beginnings, comedy, lust, heartbreak, betrayal, and religion. Every chapter introduces a new member of my fictional family and takes you through a brief journey of the life they’ve lived. With contrasting personalities, Odd Family Out tells the exciting stories of how an extended family, individually, pursued happiness in their own way.
This book leaves you with many unanswered questions dancing in your thought. You’ll be left to tell the rest of the story in your own words. Do you want a happy-ever-after ending or do you want something ordinary that seems fitting and feasible in a real world? Let’s take a look at Stacy. Will she have the guts to bring a stop to Darren’s wedding and profess her love for him before everyone and before his bride-to-be, which happens to be a friend as well? Will God answer little Vivi’s prayer and subject Mister Kwashima to a three-day coma, so little Vivi could make new friends at school? Will Mandy ever feel loved and wanted in this harsh-cold-bleak world? Will Tessa take things with Ethan to a whole different level? Will Jane regret kissing Martin on her wedding day to Stanley? Will Nnenna’s heart be broken like every other girl who dares dating for the first time? Has Rose truly developed romantic feelings for a man who she should only have an affair with?
I will leave you to read the stories for yourself, and decide which path the rest of the story takes.
With love,
Nick